# Loeb Menoeceus and vita notes print sex and marriage as dubious for the sage

Date: 1925

## The fact

Hicks’s Loeb prints passages and anecdotes in which sexual desire is a disturbance and marriage is not required of the sage. The dated carrier is 1925 English. Household formation is a cohesion technology; teaching its optional status is a limit, not a crime.

## Context

The Garden also practised friendship at high intensity. That improving path is another row.

[Epicurus](/people/epicurus) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, museum, archive, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Diogenes Laertius, Lives, Loeb / Hicks vol. 2 (https://archive.org/details/livesofeminentph02dioguoft; Internet Archive / Loeb Classical Library scan).

## Significance

Optional marriage is not a fertility statute. It is a printed counsel that thins one civic household form.

Optional marriage is not a fertility statute. It is a printed counsel that thins one civic household form.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Epicurus: https://factrail.ai/people/epicurus

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Epicurus
- https://archive.org/details/livesofeminentph02dioguoft

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-sex-marriage-dubious